Web sites with smoking prevention aids
Web sites with smoking prevention aids
There is a wide array of tobacco prevention resources available on the World Wide Web. Following is a list to enhance your patient education efforts:
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Web site: www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/osh
The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a tobacco information and prevention source page with information for parents and educators. A section for kids offers posters, pamphlets, magazines, and other anti-smoking material. The site includes links to other sites.
• Doctors Ought to Care.
Web site: kickbutt.org
This site is run by a Washington state organization called Doctors Ought to Care. Separate sections for children and parents not only inform but also encourage both constituencies to become involved in anti-smoking activism.
• Master Anti-Smoking Page.
Web site: www.autonomy.com/smoke.htm
This site provides links to a multitude of on-line anti-smoking resources.
• National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Web site: www.tobaccofreekids.org/
An informative site with separate sections for parents and kids run by the Washington, DC-based National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids. The site includes links to other sites for both kids and their parents.
• Youth Information Web site.
Web site: youth.os.dhhs.gov/
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC, runs this Web page that covers smoking and other problems children face such as alcohol use, teen pregnancy, and gang violence.
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